Boud R. - Hyper-V Network Virtualization Cookbook

Ryan Boud has been working in the IT field since 1998 when he started working part-time on a service desk while studying at Goldsmiths College, University of London. After graduating, he worked his way up to manage the customer IT service desk. He then moved into IT management and development, creating internal applications and middleware for third-party applications. Recently, Ryan moved to Inframon, The Cloud Transformation Specialists, as a System Center and Desktop Implementation Consultant. He has worked on numerous different implementations of Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 Hyper-V and System Center 2012 R2 for a variety of customers in the public and private sectors.

I would like to thank James, Sumeet, and others at Packt Publishing for all their assistance in writing this book. Additionally, I would like to thank the technical reviewers for their fantastic feedback and guidance.

I would especially like to thank Gordon and Sean at Inframon whose belief in me has encouraged me to take this opportunity to write a book, which has always been on my list of career goals.

My final thanks go to my wife, Sarah, who has always believed in me and has helped keep our children busy while I was writing this book! Additionally, I would like to thank her for all her support; without her, I wouldn't be able to do the job I love doing and have wanted to do for so long.

Niklas Akerlund works as Chief Technical Architect - Microsoft Solutions at a consultancy firm in Sweden. He has extensive experience in design and adoption of hybrid cloud solutions with Hyper-V, Azure, Office 365, and EMS. He also works on the design, implementation, and upgrading of private clouds using MS Hyper-V 2012 R2 with System Center for customers with a strong focus on automation.

He often writes posts about virtualization and automation on his blog, http://vniklas.djungeln.se/; you can follow him on twitter at http://twitter.com/vniklas.

Niklas is the cofounder of PowerShell User Group Sweden; he has also been awarded Hyper-V MVP for his contributions to and love for sharing technology with other IT professionals.

Markus Darda is the owner of MD Consultancy, Germany, and DaComp GmbH, Switzerland. As senior Citrix engineer and architect, he works for Enterprise customers all over Europe to design and implement Citrix (XenApp and XenDesktop) environments based on different Hypervisors. As a Citrix and Microsoft trainer, he teaches about Microsoft Server Products and Citrix Products to customers all over Europe. He also works for Citrix as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) in different courseware and exams.

He has worked for Lanxess, Germany; T-Systems, Germany; Koenen en Co, the Netherlands; and other companies in Switzerland, Sweden, and Norway.

He has also worked on Citrix XenApp7.5 Desktop Virtualization Solutions , Packt Publishing , and other different courseware from Citrix.

James Preston is an IT professional working in the education field and has a broad range of interests, including Virtualization with Hyper-V and App-V, data-orientated application design with Visual Studio Lightswitch, IP telephony, and Remote Access technologies.

To share his knowledge, James runs a blog (http://myworldofit.net/) that covers a wide range of the most recent topics, including publishing a WebDAV server, the effective integration of student databases with virtual learning environments, and his take on an enterprise Wi-Fi deployment.

When he isn't working, he can be found in the local coffee shop having a go at the latest computer games or planning the training program for his local air cadet squadron.

Lai Yoong Seng is a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) in Hyper-V since 2010. He has more than 14 years of IT experience and he joined Hyper-V and System Center Specialist Infront Consulting in Malaysia. He started off by specializing in Microsoft Virtualization, and then started blogging (www.ms4u.info) and presenting at local and regional events. He is the founder of Malaysia Virtualization User Group (MVUG), which is a one-stop center for people to learn about Hyper-V, System Center, and Azure.

Previously, he was actively engaged as Technology Early Adopter (TAP) and Tester of System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012, System Center 2012 SP1, Windows Server 2012 R2 and System Center 2012 R2, and Azure Site Recovery.

Then, he was a technical reviewer for the book Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V: Deploying Hyper-V Enterprise Server Virtualization Platform and the video Building and Managing a Virtual Environment with Hyper-V Server 2012 R2 , both by Packt Publishing.

Reviewing a book takes a lot of effort and is a difficult process. It would not be possible without help from my family, colleagues, and friends. I would like to thank my parents for their understanding, patience, and help to keep all the other stuff together while I was reviewing the a book. In addition, a very special thanks to Packt Publishing for an opportunity to contribute to this book.

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